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Former Vice President Dick Cheney never attempted to influence or intimidate the CIA's inspectors in order to get the findings he wanted on the CIA's review of enhanced interrogation techniques, the agency's inspector general has told FOX News. In a rare response for a request to comment, CIA IG John Helgerson confirmed Tuesday that he met personally with Cheney during the course of the investigation, and despite allegations on Web blogs, the former vice president made no effort to influence his work. "The VP (whom I had long known reasonably well, as, in a non-IG capacity, I used to brief...

Mary McCarthy's boss, is CIA Inspector General John Leonard Helgerson. Helgerson is married to the former Martha Emmie Winders. According to this genealogy site, the Helgersons have a daughter named Katherine: Martha Emmie WINDERS(3) was born on Aug 3 1943. Parents: William Flemon WINDERS and Mary JENKINS. She was married to John Leonard HELGERSON on Dec 30 1969. Children were: Katherine Mary HELGERSON, Paul William HELGERSON. The FEC records show the following for Federal Government "analyst" Katherine Helgerson:Non-Federal Receipts "Exempt From Limits" HELGERSON, KATHERINE MC LEAN, VA 22101 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT/ANALYST      KERRY, JOHN F     VIA JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT...

Porter J. Goss, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, delivered a long-awaited internal report to Congress on Monday night that is said to give a harsh assessment of the agency's performance before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Mr. Goss, who was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee before his appointment last year as head of the C.I.A., hand-delivered two copies of the classified report to staff members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. The copies of the report, which is several hundred pages, were placed in committee safes and were not to be opened at least until...

WASHINGTON -- A report from the CIA's independent investigator is expected to conclude officials at the highest level of the agency are to blame for pre-Sept. 11 intelligence lapses. The report by the CIA's inspector general, John Helgerson, which is nearly complete, concludes that senior leaders should be held accountable for failing to provide adequate resources for combating terrorism, the New York Times reports in its Friday editions. Among those who receive the most pointed criticism in a draft version are former CIA Director George Tenet and former Deputy Director of Operations Jim Pavitt, both of whom resigned last summer,...